In 1980, H. Summerfield Day, the former University Architect (1966-1975) and Planning Coordinator (1975-1980) competed the history of Iowa State University's buildings and grounds. This massive undertaking took him and his assistants twelve years...

During a flood occuring in Spring 1901 or 1902, water in Squaw Creek over-flowed the banks, submerging the surrounding area. The water is high, but doesn't appear to be over the Ames & college Railway (The Dinkey) tracks. Two individuals are...

Kitchen-Klatter began as a half-hour radio show with Leanna Driftmier sharing household tips, recipes, and childrearing advice among other topics. The radio show aired from 1926-1986 making it the longest running homemaker program in the history of...

History of Benton County, Iowa. : From materials in the public archives, the Iowa historical society's collection, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, also containing sketches of representative men / Compiled under the editorial...

Lecture read before women's clubs in Los Angeles, California. Discusses the importance of a woman's role in the home, how a woman's education prepares her for life, how education has helped the women's suffrage movement, and the importance of...

Mar. 10, 1902
Dr. L. H. Pammel,
Ames, Iowa.
My Dear Professor Pammel:
I have your favor of March 3d and beg leave to say that your Gymnosporangia will be forthcoming, as I presume you want them pretty well developed and they are just now beginning...

Apr. 5, 1902
Dr. L. H. Pammel,
Ames, Iowa.
My Dear Doctor Pammel:
I have your favor of March 29th and note with pleasure that you have received the Gymnosporangium in good condition. I shall be on the alert for the other three you mention although...

May 1, 1902
Dr. L. H. Pammel,
Ames, Iowa.
My Dear Professor Pammel:
I have your favor of April 26th and note carefully all you say. I shall continue to look for species of Gymnosporangum. Now I can secure you Roestelia on host of cedar. I do not...

October 13th, 1902
Dr. L. H. Pammel,
Ames, Iowa.
My Dear Professor Pammel:
I have your favor of October 7th asking for fifty specimens of our most prominent weeds. I shall take pleasure in collecting these specimens for you myself as I can do so in...

Dec. 12, 1902
Dr. L. H. Pammel,
Ames, Iowa.
My Dear Professor Pammel:
I am sending you today a small package of plants which are among our most troublesome weeds. I did not get the entire fifty of them but I think I can supply you with these a...

Dec. 30, 1902
Dr. L. H. Pammel,
Ames, Iowa.
My Dear Doctor Pammel:
I have your favor of December 23d and note that the package of specimens has reached you. I shall be very glad to send you more as soon as the season for collecting opens. I presume...

"The following recipes, compiled by Janet McKenzie Hill, Editor The Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, Boston, are given as few simple ways in which some of the Sinclair's Fidelity products may be prepared."

The fire at the Iowa Agricultural College Experiment Barn in 1902. The building was of frame construction with a gable roof. Flames are engulfing the roof and traveling down the sides of the building as a crowd of onlookers watches.

A transcription of a talk given by Ralph K. Bliss. Covers topics such as agricultural education, and the anniversary of Sioux County’s agricultural cooperation with the university by recalling benchmarks such as the first mass educational effort in...